On neio ITymenojjtera from Northern India. 211 



XXIII. — Descriptions of new Species of Aculeate and 

 Parasitic Hymenoptera from Northern India. By P. 

 Cameron. 



Apidse. 

 Nomia piloseUa, sp. n. 



Black ; the liead^ thorax^ base of abdomen, and legs 

 densely covered with longish white pubescence ; the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments with emerald-coloured 

 smooth bands ; postscutellum with two stout longish black 

 spines; metanotal area stoutly closely striated. Wings 

 hyaline, the apex infuscated ; tegulae black, pale round the 

 outer border. Face and clypeus not very strongly keeled 

 down the middle. Hind femora roundly dilated above, the 

 basal slope longer and not so long as the apical ; the hind 

 tibiae become gradually wider towards the apex and rounded 

 on the outer side ; on the inner side the basal two thirds is 

 straight, only slightly roundly dilated ; the apex is broadly 

 bluntly roundly dilated, somewhat as in A^. Westwoodi, but 

 the femora are much thicker, more dilated in the centre 

 above, the basal and apical slopes are straight, oblique, 

 whereas in Westwoodi the femora above have a gradually 

 rounded curve from the base to the apex ; in the present 

 species they are shaped more as in N. Elliotii as figured by 

 Smith (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, pi. i. fig. 7), but not by 

 Bingham [' Fauna of Brit. India,^ i. p. 449). The pubescence 

 on the present species is much longer and denser than in 

 Elliotii, which has the base of the metanotum " finely punc- 

 tured," and there is a green band on the first abdominal 

 segment ; the present species has no baud on it and the base 

 of the metanotum is stoutly reticulated ; also it is much 

 more densely pilose. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



Habropoda fulvipes, sp. n. 



Black ; the basal two segments of the abdomen rufo- 

 fulvous, the lower inner orbits, a dagger-shaped mark (the 

 " handle " above) on the centre of the face and clypeus, apex 

 of clypeus, labrum, and basal half of mandibles pale yellow; 

 the hair on the front of the head darker, behind paler coloured 

 than it is on the thorax; antennae dark brownish; legs 



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